From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: nelhage@ksplice.com
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch v2] fix stack overflow in pktgen_if_write()
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:43:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027224302.GQ6062@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027221234.GN6062@bicker>
Nelson Elhage says he was able to oops both amd64 and i386 test
machines with 8k writes to the pktgen file. Let's just allocate the
buffer on the heap instead of on the stack.
This can only be triggered by root so there are no security issues here.
Reported-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
I saw this on twitter. Hi Nelson, could you test this?
V2: strndup_user() => memdup_user()
diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 2c0df0f..b5d3c70 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -887,12 +887,14 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_if_write(struct file *file,
i += len;
if (debug) {
- char tb[count + 1];
- if (copy_from_user(tb, user_buffer, count))
- return -EFAULT;
- tb[count] = 0;
+ char *tb;
+
+ tb = memdup_user(user_buffer, count + 1);
+ if (IS_ERR(tb))
+ return PTR_ERR(tb);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "pktgen: %s,%lu buffer -:%s:-\n", name,
(unsigned long)count, tb);
+ kfree(tb);
}
if (!strcmp(name, "min_pkt_size")) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 19:13 [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 19:21 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 19:28 ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 19:30 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 19:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 19:49 ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 20:38 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-27 22:12 ` [patch] fix stack overflow in pktgen_if_write() Dan Carpenter
2010-10-27 22:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-27 22:43 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-10-27 23:06 ` [patch v2] " Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 6:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 6:05 ` [patch v3] " Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 15:22 ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 16:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 16:30 ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 23:11 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-01 3:47 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 15:20 ` [PATCH] pktgen: Limit how much data we copy onto the stack Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 18:32 ` David Miller
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